Posts in category Financial Effectiveness Perspectives

The IMA Ohio Regional Council will be holding the 43rd annual Meonske Professional Development Conference at Kent State University on April 26-28, 2017, including a special one day pre-conference session focusing on upcoming changes to revenue recognition and leasing, the challenges these changes present, and practical solutions for addressing the challenges on Wednesday, April 26th. […]

The OHIO IMA has come up with a great idea. Nominate the unsung hero in your accounting department to receive an award at the upcoming Meonske Professional Development conference Unsung Accounting Hero Award Nomination Survey Every accounting department has that one person who consistently gives their all. The one who is rock steady and always […]

The other day, I was scanning my Twitter Feed, and I see a link for an article from CFO Magazine titled Don’t Let the Climate Change Your Business . Being somewhat of an environmentalist in my other life (I have also written for an ecology blog) this raised my eyebrows a little. What is their real message? […]

For a full update on the latest PCAOB Hot Button Issues and developments, please attend our quarterly recap webinar. Our next webinar is scheduled for September 14 at 1:00 PM Eastern, and will focus on Root Cause Analysis On August 18, the PCAOB released their Annual Report on the Interim Inspection Program Related to Audits […]

Join SVA founder Gabe Zubizarreta and other thought leaders at Elevate! the 2016 National Conference of the Accounting & Financial Women’s Alliance on October 26 in Denver Colorado. Gabe will present in two breakout sessions ASC 606: Using the Power of Change to Create Sustainable Improvement Optimizing the Accounting Close and Financial Reporting Here is a small […]

CFO Magazine published the results of a recent KPMG survey asking CEOs what they were looking for from CFOs. The short answer is “a lot”. But the biggest takeaway that we see is that CEOs want their finance teams to contribute more to the strategic success of the organization. They want finance to be proactive […]

Writing in CFO Magazine, our friend Mary C. Driscoll of APQC takes a look at some of the results of APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking assessment. The results are enlightening and confirm what we have seen with many of our clients over the past years. The difference between the top performing firms and the bottom performers, in […]

IIA CEO Richard Chambers makes a impassioned plea for members of the profession to stand up for themselves and fight back against some of the common stereotypes. Key Quotes “today internal auditors … examine how the beans are grown, how they are harvested, and how they are taken to market” “the critical characteristics of a […]

Last week FASB Chair Russel G. Golden delivered an address to the AICPA Conference on Current SEC & PCAOB Developments . The entire speech is worth reading. We’ll hit some of the highlights. Golden stated that the Revenue Recognition Transition Resource Group (TRG) was successful in many ways. Because TRG was a joint effort of FASB […]